Teddy Partridge

Gays get thrown under the bus with women, Hispanics, public option and single-payer supporters, community colleges, and student loan borrowers. I thought it might be possible to enact health care reform without LGBTs having to take one for the team, but no.

Tags: equal rights, health care equity, health care reform, under the bus

FDL continues its team coverage of Perry v. Schwarzenegger–including more legal analysis, court documents, videos, and liveblogging direct from the federal court in San Francisco. You can find it all on our dedicated Prop 8 page.

Tags: California, civil rights, EQCA, Gay rights, Jeff Kors, liveblog, Marriage Equality, Perry v. Schwarzenegger, prop 8, Vaughn Walker

Let’s hope Kevin Garn’s so-far-remarkable step, as a GOP, of actually resigning his office wakes up our media. So that when the next pervert is revealed (and you know another one will be, perhaps soon) our wise media gatekeepers will say, “Hey, Kevin Garn resigned, shouldn’t you too?”

Tags: accountability, Culture wars, David Vitter, Family values, GOP ethics, GOP sex scandals, GOP-Media complex, hypocrisy, Hypocrites, John Ensign, Kevin Garn, Larry Craig, Mark Sanford, Media, Republican Party, Republicans, sex scandals

Oh heavens, it’s the end of the Senate as we know it, they say.

Thank you, thank you.

Tags: GlueHorse, health care reform, John McCain, John Thune, Judd Gregg, Lindsey Graham, Mitch MConnell, nuclear option, obstructionism, Reconciliation

Armies of God are not the American way, unless this is a theocracy. Has our nation become a theocracy by permitting rampaging bands of adherents to one religion but not another? Because that doesn’t sound like the America I love.

Something jumped out at me in Jane Hamsher’s diary this morning about Lynn Woolsey’s treachery on Public Option: the California filing deadline for primary challenges is March 12th. I wondered: how many state primary deadlines will slip by as the House tries to make Bart Stupak happy? In how many states will progressive activists have to wait until 2012 to challenge Democratic incumbents who vote against women’s health rights and for a mandate to buy private health insurance? Are we losing 2010 accountability?

Tags: accountability, health care reform, House of Representatives, incumbency protection racket, Nancy Pelosi, primary elections

Happy End of The Canuckistan Olympics, everyone! And — you may now go back to loving San Francisco best of all the West Coast cities.

Tags: Canada, humor, Olympics

Longtime Lieberman mouthpiece Dan Gerstein is portrayed in Politico as a “Democratic political consultant” whenever they need someone to run down the Democrats or, as today, tout the Republicans. Who still hires this hack, and how can they defend that now?

Tags: consultants, Dan Gerstein, health care summit, political malpractice, Politico, Reconciliation

New Hampshire Senator Judd Gregg, who must now be referred to by Village media elites in every instance as “Barack Obama’s first choice for Commerce Secretary,” took time on the floor of the United States Senate in 2005 to school Democrats on how and why reconciliation was entirely appropriate.

The legacy of America’s Hephaestus, Alexander Haig: an unaccountable Executive; Ronald Reagan’s presidency; and the disastrous reach into the twenty-first century of Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld, returned from the never-extinguished wreckage of the Nixon years to shape America’s destiny as their own.

Tags: Broken Government, BushCo, Constitution, corruption, Dick Cheney, GOP ethics, Republican Party, Republicans, Teddy Kennedy